Provoked Quotes

It is a very tricky situation when you get the chance to work in English films. I do films based on characters, not to get an entry into Hollywood or whatever. In English, my Bride & Prejudice did well world over. I don`t know how it did in Hindi, but I know Jurassic Park too didn`t do well in Hindi. I was glad audiences worldwide liked an English film that was Indian. When I did Mistress of Spices, I did it for Paul (Mayeda Berges, the director and husband of Gurinder Chadha) as a team. The film found its audiences. When the Provoked script came to me, I felt it was a very important story of an Indian woman based in London who killed her husband because of marital abuse. Kiranjit Ahluwalia made a big impression in England, and so I did this film because I felt it was an important story to be told. Provoked is an important film for many other Kirans in the world. (November 2006)

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

These natural and human tragedies provided the headline news; they also provoked a quite remarkable humanitarian response. It has been clear that in the course of this year relief workers and financial support have come from members of every faith and from every corner of the world.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man`s external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

The love of one`s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

The 2006 budget crisis is looming, provoked by the fiscal policies of the Bush Cheney Regime, ... The Vortex of Bushonomics, The Downward Spiral & The Coming 2006 Budget Crisis.

Today, the U.S. Congress declares America`s independence from hanging chads, butterfly ballots and a broken outdated election system that nearly provoked a constitutional crisis two years ago.

Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction